The Staten Island brute who fatally hit his wife in the head with a can of oven cleaner because she refused to splurge for cable TV while he was hospitalized has taken a no-jail plea deal, authorities said.

Thomas Scala, 58, will be sentenced to five years probation for criminally negligent homicide under the deal struck Wednesday.

Scala, a retired longshoreman, was enraged that his 59-year-old spouse, Blanche, didn’t spring for $5.75-a-day premium television while he was laid up in the hospital during Thanksgiving 2010, law enforcement sources said.

When he was released, the two got into a fight inside their New Dorp Beach home and that’s when Scala hit her in the head, sources added.

The wound triggered the fatal bleeding of an old brain injury she suffered at Scala’s hands, sources said.

She died the next day.

“The defendant’s guilty plea to the top charge against him brings some closure to a grueling ordeal for Blanche Scala’s family,” said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.